Re: [RFC]swapfso and ioctl function for filesystems

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:27:20PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Could this be made more transparent? For example, with a variable. Here perhaps it could be. But in other usage cases like putting the dos boot files into the right place or doing swapfso it couldn't. We intentionally don't

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:40:32PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:49:14PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: Possibilites are there, but basically they are limited to something like: (ata0) (pci-X-Y-Z:ata0) (usb-X-Y:scsi0) (pci-X-Y-Z:scsi0) I think

Re: [RFC] Boot parameters and geometrical stability

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:37:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:31:10PM +0200, phcoder wrote: I assume you talk about GRUB loading itself; what kind of information would you pass from one GRUB to the other? Boot device, Multiboot already

Re: Multiple partition maps

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:49:21PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Robert Millan wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, phcoder wrote: Hello. I was looking at the grub code and seen that if a disk has multiple partition tables (e.g. macintel with bootcamp) then only first one will be

[PATCH] Move cpuid.mod to conf/i386.rmk (Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk)

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:08:29PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:07 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk

Re: When the 'Fancy Menu' branch will be availble on the main thread?

2008-09-05 Thread Vesa Jääskeläinen
y.volta wrote: hi, all: Collin has submit the 'Fancy Menu', when it will be available on the main svn thread? When it gets reviewed and merged. I have been slowly adapting some of the patches to my local devel tree so they can get committed. However I need to make sure they are

[PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-05 Thread phcoder
Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Javier Martín wrote: El mié, 03-09-2008 a las 20:53 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen escribió: phcoder wrote: Hello. In this case we can transfer the whole functionality located in

Re: [PATCH] Move kern/loader.c to boot.mod and add preboot_support (was Re: Sendkey patch)

2008-09-05 Thread Javier Martín
El vie, 05-09-2008 a las 18:13 +0200, phcoder escribió: Hello. As I said in another email there is no need for it. I send a patch for it. Well, I won't deny the patch is clever and looks good (I haven't tested it yet). However, taking the generic boot command out of kernel and leaving the

Re: [PATCH] Warning if grub.cfg not found

2008-09-05 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, On Aug/30/2008, Robert Millan wrote: Hi On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:43:14PM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Index: normal/cmdline.c === --- normal/cmdline.c(revision 1826) +++ normal/cmdline.c

Re: [PATCH] iso9660 UUID support by using the creation date/time

2008-09-05 Thread Felix Zielcke
Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 20:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke: Args, I'm blind :( I copied the function from fs/ntfs.c and there it says `grub_malloc 16 + sizeof (\0)' With it's useless so .5 attached so it doestn't get lost :) Bean did only the joliet support and he already said it looks

[RFC] general-usage real-mode loader

2008-09-05 Thread phcoder
Hello. A long time ago I written a C+asm code which loads any given code at any real-mode location, then puts machine in correct state and then launches the kernel. I can modify this code to suit GRUB2. Then loading realmode kernel would work like this: 1) copy helper asm to last kb of lower

Re: [RFC] general-usage real-mode loader

2008-09-05 Thread phcoder
BTW. This helper would allow easy addition of many different kernels (freedos, haiku, ntldr, ...) Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phcoder wrote: Hello. A long time ago I written a C+asm code which loads any given code at any real-mode location, then puts machine in correct state and then launches